It's a good day for all hardcore Team Fortress 2 players. Valve today informed that the long-awaited PC update for TF2 has been released. This update includes 39 new medic achievements, three new medic items: The Blutsaugher, The Kritzkrieg, and The Ubersaw and a new Goldrush map for all players. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. In other TF2 news, a worldwide Team Fortress 2 Free Weekend will begin Friday at noon PDT, and offer free access to the entire game for anyone with a free Steam account from May 2 to May 4. Using the functionality made available through Steam and Steamworks, all of the files needed to join the Free Weekend are available for pre-loading now.

Source Engine

Improved particle performance on multi-core machines

Added FOV slider to Options | Video | Advanced for all games (moved there from TF2’s multiplayer options)

For mapmakers:
- Mapmakers can now directly place the tf_gamerules entity into their map. Fixes Hammer thinking the inputs to it are broken
- Mapmakers can now place Engineer buildings directly into a map, with an option for them to be invulnerable
- Added "AddRedTeamScore" and "AddBlueTeamScore" inputs to tf_gamerules
- Added "SetRequiredObserverTarget" input to tf_gamerules. Force spectators to use the specified viewpoint

Granary
- Added setup time logic, and gates to the middle
- Fixed an overlay alignment bug on one of blue's gate signs
- Minor lighting fixes in red/blue spawns

2Fort
- Added medium ammo and health to basement hallways
- Added small ammo and health to top of spiral
- Fixed a clip brush exploit outside blue sniper deck
- Fixed number "2" overlay on front of red base not being assigned to the brush face

Sweet new map but unfortunately there are way too many medics running around now. They need to get more achievement packs out asap to bring the balance back.

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Yeah, but it's awfully fun when you can get uber'd with any class you play! Being a heavy is especially fun right now. Last night there were times when it seemed like just heavies and medics were around! Bullets everywhere!

Yeah, but it's awfully fun when you can get uber'd with any class you play! Being a heavy is especially fun right now. Last night there were times when it seemed like just heavies and medics were around! Bullets everywhere!

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Oh for sure I have been having a blast blowing up all the stupid medics running around Ubering each other. Hopefully things will go back to normal in a few days but looking at the new Loadout screens I am convinced that Valve will start hammering out achievement packs for all the classes. Maybe a new map and achievement set every month but that is expecting a lot from a company that runs on their own time system.

For sure I would say Valve is the best Dev ever. They give out so much free content and constantly update and fix problems with all of their games. It looks like TF2 is going to be a big game with Valve at least until they release the Oranger Box which will probably come with even more stuff for TF2. Or dare I say Counter Strike 2

For sure I would say Valve is the best Dev ever. They give out so much free content and constantly update and fix problems with all of their games. It looks like TF2 is going to be a big game with Valve at least until they release the Oranger Box which will probably come with even more stuff for TF2. Or dare I say Counter Strike 2

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Yes. Valve IS the best developer of all time. They update and patch their games ALL THE TIME. Epic has released 2 patches for UT3. The game still has many problems, and crashes frequently. I feel bad for playing GTA4 instead of DLing this patch.